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Jeff Urban Jeff Urban is offline
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Default create schematic from circuit board images?

Not all components on the circuit
board can be readily identified


That can be a problem. You probably have to do it manually but then figure out how to work it into the drawing in the software.

Another thing is two sided boards have been around for a longtime, I have no idea how you put that together but you can bet you have to depopulate the board to get a picture of it.

It might be a good idea to try it on a board that you know, well the schematic of. You can get used to what kind of errors and other **** you can run into.

If you got more than a two sided board, like four layers which are in many things now, such a program will not do much good. The outer foil patterns could be nothing but a power plane and a ground plane. The real works is hidden underneath.